II Chron. 20:20 Early the
next morning the army of Judah went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. On the way Jehoshaphat stopped and said,
“Listen to me, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be
able to stand firm. Believe in his prophets,
and you will succeed.”
The key to all spiritual success is to do simply what Jehoshaphat
told his people to do, “Believe in the Lord your God.” Believing enables us to stand. God sends us people with His message for our
hearts; believe them. Success is given
to those who will but believe.
The issue before us today is belief. Do we really believe in the Lord our
God? There is a difference between
believing about God and believing God.
Believing God means that we accept what God says about himself, all of
it. It means we take seriously what God
says. It means we acknowledge that God
is worthy of not only our worship, but our allegiance. It means that our highest calling in life is
to yield to Him. It means that we don’t
pick and choose what we want to live and do from what He says. Every word that comes from God is true and
commands our attention and doing.
Can you honestly say today that you believe God? Do you really believe that God is to be
believed and obeyed? Are you striving to
not sin, to live a holy life? Are you
concerned about sin as you should be?
Are you taking what you believe into the world and striving to be the
salt and light He commands us to be?
Believing enables us to stand.
When we don’t believe as we should, we stumble around and fall. There is no stability in the lives of those
who don’t believe in their heart what the Lord reveals in the head. Success comes to those who believe without wavering.
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